Lorenzo Guidotti, an Italian priest prompted outrage on Thursday taking to Facebook platform to spite a girl who said she had been raped that it was her fault for getting drunk and hanging around with African immigrants.

“I’m sorry but if you swim in the piranha tank you cannot complain if you lose a limb”, the parish priest in Bologna wrote on the social media site, according to Italian media reports.

In a lengthy rant he chastised the underage girl, who had told police she had been raped by a North African man she had met in the city while drunk. She said she was attacked by him and woke up later, half naked and with her bag gone.

“Sweetie, I’m sorry, but… you get revoltingly drunk… and then who do you go off with? A North African?” the priest went on in the post.

“Do you understand that, along with the alcohol, you’ve gulped down the ideological tirade about ‘welcoming everyone’?” he said in a reference to those who support Italy giving needy migrants shelter.

“Darling, at this point, waking up semi-naked is the least that could happen to you”, he added. The Bologna archdiocese, who Guidotti works for, told the media his opinion ‘in no way reflects that of the Church, which condemns every sort of violence’.

When the post started attracting lots of reactions, Guidotti claimed he was ‘trying to make kids and their parents think’ and not attacking the girl personally. However, he has since apologized unreservedly to the victim and her family.